Now to be fair, that Gateway Destination system includes an enormous (for the time) 31" CRT (no doubt absurdly heavy) monitor. But I know what you mean. In 1993 I paid $3k for a 486 DX2-66 with a 15-inch monitor, 16 MB RAM, and 340 MB hard drive and even then the modem and sound card were purchased separately later (though it did include a 1x CD-ROM).
Does seem like a nice deal on that laptop. The only real negative is the lack of dedicated graphics but of course that only really matters if you are going to be gaming or doing the kind of stuff you would want a professional workstation for. I mean an i7 would be nice too...
Considering how the value of money has changed in the last 20 - 30 years, it's amazing to me that we purchased such expensive technologies for our home. When I was a teen learning MSDOS for the first time, I didn't really think about the actual monetary cost of the machine I was playing with. I mean it was mostly used for KING'S QUEST and LEMMINGS and CIVILIZATION.
The graphics card is really basic and the processor is only an i3. It doesn't say which model i3, except that it's 3.7 Ghz. There was an i5 version for $100 more but I couldn't justify it.
BTW, the sale ended and the price increased by $250. It's being sold for $700 now, got it just in time!
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